Optimized combination of compute(CPU, GPU), memory, disk (storage) and

networking for specific workloads

m (m5, m6) - General Purpose. Balance of compute, memory, and networking.

t (t2, t3, t3a) - Burstable performance instances (accumulate CPU credits when inactive).

Workloads with spikes : web servers, developer environments and small databases.

c (c5, c6, c7) - Compute optimized.. Batch processing, high performance computing (HPC)

r (R4, R5, R6) - Memory (RAM) optimized. Memory caches and in-memory databases.

i (i4, d3) - Storage (I/O) optimized. NoSQL databases and data warehousing.

g (g4, g5) - GPU optimized. FP Calculations, graphics processing, or video compression.

t2.micro:

t - Instance Family

2 - generation. Improvements with each generation.

micro - size. (nano < micro < small < medium < large < xlarge < .....)

Size increases => compute, memory and networking capabilities increase